Change before you have to. Plan for what is difficult while it is easy. Remember: A goal without a plan is just a wish

SMART programmes is a consultancy that helps organisations transform under the most complex, challenging, and high-stakes circumstances to achieve their ambitions.

We can partner with you on developing a strategy and vision, delivering cross-departmental and organisational portfolios, or Transformational programme management to deliver the services that you need.

Our dedicated team of consultants can be by your side when it matters most to ensure your programme delivers truly Transformative change

Our Story
We have grown organically over the years, to ensure that we have the best sector-relevant experience available. 
Consultants are at their best when they have the chance to apply their skills across a range of work, from strategy through to delivery and seeing change through to its conclusion. Clients also benefit from consultants who have worked across a range of industries and sectors - generating fresh thinking and perspective.
Our primary specialism remains our ability to shape and deliver complex, critical and lasting Transformational change. 
How we work
  • Our approach to Management consulting has a focus on enabling our clients to achieve  long-lasting change
  • We deliver results through a commitment to quality, a focus on creating strategies and delivering programmes that bring about substantive and lasting impact for your business. 
  • We believe transformation should make a tangible, enduring difference that will meet future challenges and opportunities head on.
  • By deploying small teams of highly experienced consultants into key roles within our clients’ businesses means we won’t overwhelm you by numbers or take months to produce results. Instead, we partner with you to help you realise your ambitions.
  • Drawing on extensive experience across a wide array of sectors, our consultants combine their knowledge of industry with imaginative, tailored approaches that are right for your business. Our approach and style of engagement will be driven by the your needs.

Services

Methods that suit your needs
  • We can help you adopt the best methodology for your needs. We understand that your business and situation are unique, and we never take a one-size-fits-all approach.
  • Through our experience, we will provide the optimal approach for your business that will harnesses the specialisms across our team. We will deliver in a structure that is meaningful for you.
Consultants who can lead with impact
  • We work in partnership. We assume key roles in our client’s organisations which enable us to understand the culture, work collaboratively and lead the change in an impactful way.
  • Wearing our client’s badge in positions of key accountability enables us to work with you and your teams to establish and deliver a path to success that ensures we are with you at every point. Whether that is in dialogue with your board or in daily stand-ups with your teams.
A consultancy that builds trust
  • Our model is to provide a small number of high calibre, experienced people to work side by side with you to set-up and deliver in the right way. We immerse ourselves in the specifics of your business and are always focused on delivering the desired outcomes.
  • Through our domain knowledge and sector experience, we are quick to fit in with your culture and ways of working that build trusted relationships.  Our experience means that we can bring a fresh perspective and constructive challenge where needed.
  • If you, as a client,  find the sheer size and complexity of your change programme daunting, or you are facing tough cultural blockers, our proven track record of transformation, delivery and business change can support your journey to deliver successful outcomes.  
  • SMART consultants are experienced transformation professionals and delivery specialists, who work together to help clients navigate through tough programmes to achieve real results under the most challenging of circumstances.  
  • From early vision, strategy and business case, right through the challenges of delivery and benefits realisation, we are committed to helping our clients achieve the results that they need
  • We can help you work out how to break down and manage complexity.  Our experience helps us quickly build an approach that can be feasibly delivered in digestible stages, realising value throughout the process as we delivery alongside your teams. We  create the optimal structure to deliver with agility and flexibility.

Sectors

Digital

  • The digital economy is dynamic and growing rapidly. As technology evolves, unlocking potential for organisations and the possibilities for new ways to do business are growing exponentially.
  • We understand all aspects of the digital economy from the infrastructure service providers that provide the rails on which the economy runs through to e-businesses running their processes across integrated networks
  • We have core expertise integrating people and technology challenges and bringing the written and unwritten rules of organisations together.

Science, Technology & Innovation

  • Scientists and engineers are redesigning future technology and the world around us in big and small ways. The rate of progress over the last half century has been staggering in fields as broad as computing, medicine, communications and materials science.
  • The technology we are already accustomed to has paved the way for us to innovate further.
  • Our team have experience in science, technology and innovation areas along with collaborations with both the Venture Capital environment and the British Business Bank in investing in future innovations for science and technology

Defence & Security

  • The Defence and Security Industrial strategy sets out a new strategic approach to the UK's defence and security industrial sectors. To do so, UK forces require the right kit an equipment and must ensure capabilities are maintained to produce ad support critical elements of our national security.
  • The UK is one of the largest defence exporters in the world , with our wider security industry supported by a hive of innovation driven by small and medium enterprises targeting a wide variety of domestic and international customers.
  • For Global Britain to succeed we need to make more of these strengths.
  • Our team have worked in the defence and security arena and have helped foster links and generate and support the innovations in these small and medium enterprises with the much larger defence Pirimes.

Policing

  • The Police Service core strategy is to earn and maintain the trust of the people that they police. in order to do this policing bodies need to focus on what matters to their communities and engage meaningfully with the public and with partners and provide a service that is supportive to the communities that they serve and that brings criminals to justice.
  • working with the Home Office, National policing, and specific forces, our team have engaged from the strategic policy levels through to delivery of front line technology and equipment.
  • Our team have experience in working alongside police officers, staff and partners to engage with transformation and delivery at all stakeholder levels.